How to Naturally Kill Weeds

We have lots of weeds in our garden(s) that I weed and try to keep up with. This is enough work but we also have weeds along (and in) our rock driveway. (It's not gravel, it's rocks we've hauled out of the basement). This is more weeding than I can handle but it looks really bad and needs to get done. Plus, the weeds in the garden are tall and easy to pull, the driveway ones are short without much to hold on to. After poking around online, I have come up with several ways to kill weeds.

• Bleach in a spray bottle. This is chemicals (not what we want to use) but supposedly, they disperse and go away in 2 days or less. This is very strong and will kill anything that gets sprayed (which includes plants you may not want killed, in which case they say you can just wipe it off of those). 
• Vinegar. It's recommended to do half vinegar, half water. The stronger the vinegar, the better. You can even use the leftover pickle juice. 
• Boiling water. Rather than boil water solely for weed killing, use the leftover water after boiling pasta or whatever else you boil.
• Salt. Any salt works like table salt, pool salt, and rock salt (used for melting ice). Again, be careful where this falls as it will kill whatever it touches.
• Newspaper. This prevents the weeds from getting the sun and growing. This will kill them.
• Any combination of above. There are a lot of recipes combining vinegar, salt, and a squirt of dish soap in a spray bottle. This is the method we are going to try on our weeds. I'l let you know how it goes.

I can't wait to get rid of these weeds!


Edit: We did try that last option this weekend to get rid of weeds. It works really well, especially on the shorter weeds but you have to make sure you spray a lot on them. It also helps if you have the sun out to help dry them out as well. What we didn't realize (but should have) is that yes this kills weeds, but you still have to pull them out. At least it gives you more time to weed, especially something as big as our driveway, before they start choking out the other plants (the ones you want to keep). So, it would probably work best if you were trying to weed between sidewalk cracks to brickwork. This way, you don't have to pull them out and you can just scrape them.